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SCOOP Great British Bake Off Hollywood starting Bikes n Bakes festival!
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British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood is setting up a motorcycle and baking festival. No, we didn’t believe it either when we first heard about it – but it’s true. The brilliant lazer-eyed barn owl of baking is a life-long motorcycle fan and owns a few bikes including a Kawasaki H2. He’s trying to…
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Our latest FREE weekly MoreBikes app is now LIVE
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The latest issue of our FREE weekly MoreBikes app is out now. Full of the stories, kit reviews, features and news that matters – and some silly stuff and videos that don’t really matter but will make you smile. Doesn’t cost a penny and you can get it from here: Here’s the app! At…
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Meet Honda’s funky Hornet 160R. About to go on sale.
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What do reckon to this little beauty then? This is the Honda CB Hornet 160R, a bike that’s going on sale in the Indian market. Powered by a 162cc single-cylinder air-cooled engine that makes 14.5bhp @ 8,000rpm, maximum torque is 14.61Nm @ 6,000rpm and the bike gets a five-speed gearbox – top end on the…
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Podcast 22: One Steph Beyond
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Steph Jeavons is an amazing rider who has travelled the world on her Honda and is still going on crazy, massive mileage missives. MoreBikes caught up with her for a chat about all things global. https://soundcloud.com/morebikes/022-one-steph-beyond
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SCOOP Kawasaki 2016 colours and stuff (so far)
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Kawasaki has just sent us these updates for the 2016 range so we thought we’d let you read what the factory itself is saying about the changes to the range. Mostly just colours at this stage, new models like the new ZX-10R and possibly the new junior supercharged bike, both of which we scooped a while back,…
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SCOOP Jurassic World Scrambler sells for £28,000
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Last weekend, the global charity auction of an iconic Triumph Scrambler ridden by film star Chris Pratt in Jurassic World closed after ten days and 90 bids. The bespoke bike, which was featured racing alongside Raptors in this summer’s blockbuster is a one-off piece of movie history and raised $43,752 or£28,000 in aid of those battling…
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SCOOP Indian confirms flat-track plans for 2017
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Well, we told you that this was going to happen and here’s the official word on Indian Motorcycles returning to the AMA flat-track series in 2017. Here’s is what Steve Menneto, Vice President of Polaris, the company that owns Indian, said: “I don’t have anything more to tell you at this stage, beyond the fact…
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VIDEO Perfect scale model H-D engine runs and revs loud
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Ok, so we’re just like you – we love motorcycles and motorcycle-related stuff. And this video just sits so right with us today. It’s a scale model (that works) of a Harley-Davidson Panhead engine. Made by modeler Ron Colonna (pictured below) as a one-off in his home model shop, the motor starts and runs on…
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VIDEO More Maddison KTM surfing action
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We were the first to bring you the Robbie Maddison KTM surfing video but the story behind the shoot might surprise you. For the ‘Pipe Dreams’ video DC shoes and Aussie riding superstar Maddison spent two and half years taking the plan from page to reality. The result was the four minute video that has…
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SCOOP Mini Suzuki V-Strom (a 250) is on the way
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More rumours from Japan about Suzuki’s 2016 line-up and this time they have the big blue company firing a 250 version of its V-Strom into the mix. Basically, the bike is the current Inazuma 250, using the same 248cc, liquid-cooled parallel-twin motor that kicks out 24.6bhp. The G-Strom 250 (as the Japanese journos are…
